Ahmadinejad: "Zionist regime seeks world control."

    It would be a mistake to believe this guy is nuts. //Mark Finkelstein   jcrc@dmjfed.org

 

'Zionist regime seeks world control'

By JPOST.COM STAFF     28/02/2010

In a rant that reeked of old-fashioned anti-Semitism, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the "Zionist regime" was seeking to control the world.

Addressing the International Conference on National and Islamic Solidarity for Future of Palestine, Ahmadinejad said that the existence of the "Zionist regime" is an insult to all of humanity, asserting that it had lost its raison d'être.

He said it was "well-known for all that the Zionist regime’s mission is threat, violence and beating drums of war," according to an IRNA translation.

Ontario legislature condemns Israel Apartheid Week

TORONTO (JTA.org) 2/28/2010 -- The legislature in the Canadian province of Ontario has condemned Israeli Apartheid Week.

All 30 members of the 107-seat provincial legislature who were present on Feb. 25 voted for the resolution that denounced the campus event that kicks off March 1 at universities and colleges in 35 cities around the world.

IAW events and speakers are scheduled at several university campuses across Ontario.

The term Israeli Apartheid Week incites "hatred against Israel, a democratic state that respects the rule of law and human rights, and the use of the word 'apartheid' in this context diminishes the suffering of those who were victims of a true apartheid regime in South Africa," Conservative legislator Peter Shurman told Shalom Life, a Toronto-based Jewish Web site.

"If you're going to label Israel as apartheid, then you are also calling Canada apartheid and you are attacking Canadian values," he continued. "The use of the phrase 'Israeli Apartheid Week' is about as close to hate speech as one can get without being arrested, and I'm not certain it doesn't actually cross over that line."

Jewish students across Canada have adopted several campaigns to counter IAW.